The two that come to mind are from before I really began in radio, and off the top of my head I can't think of any notable September events in my nearly twenty years in the biz.

Diana's passing is one I won't forget - I had just lost my mom to colon cancer at 45 not even three months prior (get your colonoscopy stat!), was about to start high school, and was listening to Peterborough rocker The Wolf 101.5 when they broke the news, possibly during the Rock Radio Network's "Overnight" show, which The Wolf carried. Fast forward 28 years, and while transferring some VHS footage to digital recently for a client, I came across about two hours of CPAC's broadcast of what I believe was Di's funeral, plus the hearse travelling through the streets of London.

But 9/11 will always be the big one by far. We were in our second week of first-year radio at Loyalist in Belleville, and our morning classes had just begun when one of our profs came in and said that a plane had crashed into one of the twin towers. A pair of TVs just down the hall, in the television broadcasting part of the campus, were tuned to CNN, and when both buildings collapsed, we were all understandably scared, esp. with CFB Trenton being just west of us. That night, I was out for a walk near Belleville's waterfront, and it was eerily quiet with no Hercs or other aircraft going into or out of the base, something one gets used to as a Belleville area resident.

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Most of the songs listed here weren't exactly hits - but they do have a date in the lyrics. 

41 Songs Featuring Actual Dates

Almost never hear The Box on the radio anymore.  I think BOOM plays a couple of their songs like Ordinary People and Closer Together.  L'Affair Domoutier, Carry On and My Dreams of You along with a few more never hear anymore.  They are playing here in Kitchener in October along with Strange Advance.